Cake-forming machine



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.. CAKE FORMING MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED NOV. 11. 1920.

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J. FOUSEK.

CAKE FORMING MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED NOV-1|, I920.

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J'OEaEPH EOUSJEK, 0F SAN FRANCISCO, CAIJIEORNIA.

CAKE-FORMING: MACHINE.

Specification ofLetters Patent. lPg tgmtgdl lthty $3, 1922;

Application filed November 11, 1920-. Serial No. 428,394.

.CakeForming Machine, of which the following is a. specification. in such full and clear terms as will enable those skilled in the art to construct and use the same.

This invention relates toa cake forming machine and its object is to produce a H1211". chine which Wlll form a greatnuinber of small cakes upon suitable carrier with minimum of hand labor.

It will be understood by those skilled in the art that small cakes such as macaroons and lady fingers are often formed by the use 01" some klnd of a dropplng.apparatus which will drop small quantitiesof the cake dough upon pans or trays upon which pans or trays they are baked. Whether operated by hand or machine, suchmeans of torming the cakes necessarily is limited to forming a few at a time or possibly only one as inthe case of handformed cakes, while with the present invention means is provided to form ten or twenty dozen cakes 111 one operation,the size of the apparatus depending upon the amount of work to be done.

the cakes may beso positioned during the time the cakes are being removed from the machine as to be entirely free from having the dough atone portlon of the die slide :over on another portion ot the die and there by intentereqwith the placing of the next series of cakes. 1

Uther objects ofthe invention will appear as the description proceeds."

An embodiment of the invention is shown in the accompanying drawings in which the same reference numeral is applied to the same portion throughout, but I am aware that there may be modifications thereof.

. Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal see tional view, through the complete machine.

Fig. 2 is a plan view oi the complete ma chine portions thereof being broken away for purposesoiillustration. v i

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the die as it appears removed from the maohlne.

Fig. at is a transverse sectional. 716W, of the machine, the plane. of section. being on line 4:"4r 1. i

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Fig. 5 is a perspective view of one of the sheets carrying the cakes after they have been termed.

Fig. .6 is asectional view illustratingthe ing rails down.

The machine has four legs 1 at the corhers, these legs are connected at the top by suitable flat table 2 and they are braced near their lower portions by means oi two end stringers 3 and 1 and two side stringers The table 9. is recessed to receive the die plate 7, the top of the die place being .levelwith the top of the ends of the table. Secured on the sidesof the table are two lon- .gitudinally extending bars 8 and 9, these bars are carried by end hinges 10 and by a center hinge 11. p Eachbar 1s provlded W113i a lug 12 at each end to pass into the end hinges 10 and it has Another object ofthe invention is to provide means whereby the die used for forming a. slot 13 to provide a portion in line with the end lugs to pass through the loop in the hinges 11. Near the center of the bars8 and 9 there is a revoluble pinla, this pin has an in the plate 18, the latti-n' being suitably scoured to the table top. The bars 8 and 9 each have five thin projecting tongues as indicated at 20, said tongues being for the purpose of securing the paper in the proper position on the top 01 the table underthe die plate. 1 V

The die platehas raised flanges 22 and 23 which fit over the rails 8 and 9 and afford the means for raising the die plate.

Just inside each side rail 8 and 9 there are verticallyextending pinsEZd, 25, 26 and 27,

four of which pins are supported by the 'lon-y gitudinally extending rails 28 and 29. Each oi the bars 28 and 29 is supported by means of the lazy tongs illustrated in Fig. 1, which consists of four links 31 to 84: inclusive suits abiy pivoted to slides 31 to 34% inclusive and at their opposite ends to the ends of links 35 to 38 inclusive.

The links 35 to 38 inclusive are pivoted to depending slotted bars 35, 37, which latter bars are in turn supported from a horizontally extending bar 38 secured. to the under side of the table.

There are two of the bars 38 and they are connected by means of a cross bar 16. A'horizontal frame 42 has upwardly extending. supports 40, 41 at its corners, which sup ports extend to and are connected with the pivots'connecting the bars 31, 32 and 33, 3 1. The bar 46 supports a screw as, said screw having a head 4C6 resting upon the top of the bar 45. The screw also extends through a horizontal plate 4-8 connected to two depending arms 45, 45', the object of which is to hold the screw in a fixed vertical position.

It will be understood from the construction just disclosed and which is duplicated at each side of the frame 412 that as the frame is raised the bars 31 to as inclusive will be raised and as the slides 31 to 34: inclusive move along the bars 28, 29 that the die plate will be raised when the pins 24; to 27 inclusive contact therewith.

When the die plate has been raised, it is turned completely over 180 by means of the arms 17 to 49 inclusive, these arms are shaped at one end to snugly fit the die plate and at the other end they are pivotally mounted on bosses 50 to 52 inclusive carried by the shaft 52. The shaft 58 has operating hand wheels 5155 at its-ends and it supports the die plate in its reversed horizontal position by means of a bar 48 carried by two bracket bearings 56 and 57. Adjacent the bosses 50-52 are two bracket supports 58-59 to hold the die plate in its reverse position.

1 The arms 47 to 49 inclusive are all pivotally connected with a longitudinally extending bar 50, said bar having operating handles 61, 62 at its ends, the object beingto enable the workman to position the arms 47 to 49, when he is standing at either end of the machine.

Extending through the table at its ends are two transverse shafts 62, 63 said shafts having operating cranks 6 1, 65. These two shafts are also provided with sprocket wheels 66, 67 and 68, 69. A sprocket chain 7 0 passes around the sprocket wheels 66 and 68 anda sprocket chain 71 passes around the sprocket wheel 67 and 69.

A linked bottomless hopper 72 is placed upon a table at one end and it has lugs 7 3, 74. which are connected to the'top run of the chains and 7l so that as the chains are operated the hopper will be turned first in one direction and then in an opposite direction over the top of thedie plate.

The operation of the apparatus is as follows:

The die plate may be placed upon the table in the position indicated in Fig. 2 and raised by the operation of the hand wheel at until it comes to the proper height to be engaged by the slotted ends of the arms 1-? to 4-9 inclusive, whereupon the operator pulls or pushes upon the bar (it) and causes said arms to engage the die plate, thereupon the operator may turn the die plate upside down by the operation of the hand wheels 54:, 55. This operation will place the die plate out of the way of the operator and leave him free to work at the machine, thereupon he will raise the bars 8, 9 to the position shown in Fig. 6 and will place one or more sheets of heavy paper on the top of the table in the depressed portion, said sheets being wide enough to be held in place by means of the tongues 20 on the bars 8 and 9.

When the sheets of paper have been placed in position the bars 8 and fl will be turned down so that the tongues 20 will engage the paper, whereupon by the o ieration ol' the latch 14c, one latch for each bar 8 and fl. the edges of the paper will be securely clamped to the table. Thercupon the die plate will be turned from its position at the back of the table to a position upon the top of paper sheets placed upon the table, that is, to the position shown in Fig. 9.. 'lhereupon the dough is charged into the bottomless hopper 72, said hopper being of sufiicient wei ht to prevent the dough from escaping at its bottom edges. The operator will then operate the cranks (il, or 65 at which ever end of the machine he may happen to be standing and will pull the hopper across the die plate. This operation will cause the openings in the die plate to be filled with soft dough and the hopper is then pulled over on to the table at the end of the die plate. 'lherenpou the wheel 44: is operated to slowly and carefully raise the die plate from the soft mass of cake dough deposited on the paper sheetand it will be raised. until it has been again re-- stored to the level of the slides in the arms 4:7 to 49 inclusive, \Vlltl't-HIPUII the will be turned to engage the die plate and the latter will be turned upside down at the back of the table.

It will be understood by those skilled in the art that it is necessary to turn the die plate exactly upside down, since if it is allowed to stand a few minutes at an incline, the-inevitable small amount of dough which clings to it will slide down on one or the other of its faces and seriously interfere with the operation thereof.

When the die plate has been turned back out of the way, arms rest upon the two brackets 58, 59. The bars 8 and 9 are unlatched and raised and the mass of cakes armac? upon the sheet of paper are transferred to the oven or to a suitable pan for baking.

It will be understood by those skilled in the art that while paper has been referred to as the receivin medium for the cakes for use under the dle plate that any suitable material may be used for this purpose and it will also be understood that while the die plate has been shown with a plurality of circular openings therein, that the openings may equally well be of any other desired shape.

In order to provide for pouring the dough into the hopper 72 a pair of standards 80 and 81 support a rail 82 adjacent one end of the table. The receptacle containing the dough being rested upon the rail 82 when the hopper is charged.

What I claim is as follows, but various modifications may be made in the construction shown in the drawings and above particularly described form, within the purview of my invention.

l. A machine of the character described comprising a table, a die plate thereon, an open bottomed hopper, means to move the hopper along the die plate and means to vertlcally raise the die plate after the hopper has been moved over the same in one direction. i

2. A machine of the character described comprising a table,means at the edge of the table to hold a dough receiving septum, a die plate placed over the dough receiving septum, an open bottomed hopper slidable along the table over the die plate, a table 3. A machine of the class described com-.

prising a table, means at the sides of the table to hold a dough receiving septum, a die plate upon said septum, an open bottomed hopper slidable along the table over the die plate, the table having portions at its ends to support the hopper independently of the die plate and operating means on both ends of the table for moving the hopper along the table over the die plate.

4:. A machine of the character described comprising a table, means at the sides of the table to hold the dough receiving septum thereon, a die plate upon the septum, an open bottomed hopper slidable along the table for the die plate, the table having portions at its ends for support of the said.

hopper independently of the die plate, means to raise the die plate vertically after the hopper has been moved over it once and a series of swinging arms adapted to engage the die plate for turning it upside down after it has been raised vertically from the dough receiving septum.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 30th day of October, A. D. 1920.

JOSEPH FOUSEK. 

